Polish jobless rate second-lowest in EU, at 2.9% in January: Eurostat

Unemployment in Poland was a modest 2.9 percent in January, the second-lowest rate in the 27-nation European Union, the bloc’s statistics agency has reported.

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The Czech Republic boasted the lowest unemployment in the European Union in January, at 2 percent, while the Netherlands trailed Poland in third place, with 3 percent, according to the Eurostat agency.

Meanwhile, Greece had the highest jobless rate in the EU, at 16.5 percent, while Spanish unemployment was the second-highest at 13.7 percent, the agency said on Tuesday.

It reported that the EU average for January was 6.6 percent, unchanged from December and down from 6.9 percent in January 2019.

Euro area #unemployment at 7.4% in January 2020; lowest rate since Mai 2008. EU at 6.6% - lowest since the start of the series https://t.co/oympigcwGE pic.twitter.com/w1V6khV4CU

— EU_Eurostat (@EU_Eurostat) March 3, 2020

Poland’s Central Statistical Office (GUS), which uses a different methodology, reported last month that the Polish jobless rate stood at 5.5 percent in January, up from 5.2 percent in December.

(gs/pk)

Source: TVP, europa.eu/eurostat